Window-shelf.



No. 858,112. PATENTBDJUNE 25, 1907. R.' B. SMART.-

WINDOW SHELF. APPLICATION FILED AUG. 23, 1906.

gyj/M /VM/M ATTORNEYS RUPERT BAXTER SMART, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

WINDOW-SHELF.

ivo. 858,112.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 25, 1907.

Application filed August 28, 1906. Serial No. 332,344.

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Be it known that I, `RUPERT BAXTER SMART, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Chicago, in the county of Cook new and improved window support, more especially designed as an attachment for windows for supporting milk bottles, fiower pots, boxes containing flowers and like articles, and which is simple and durable in construction, and arranged to permit convenient attachment to the window and to allow placing the articles in position on the platform of the support or removing the articles therefrom.

The invention consists of novel features and parts and combinations of the same, which will be more fully described hereinafterand then pointed out in the claims.

A practical embodiment of the invention is represented in the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corre-v sponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improvement as applied and showing the plat -form drawn into the room; Fig. 2 is an enlarged transverse section of the improvement showing the platform on the outside of the window; Fig. 3 is a plan view of part of the platform and the handle for the same, the handle being partly shown in section, and Fig. 4 is a perspective view of one of the sockets for the supporting rod.

A platform or table A is provided at the under side and at the forward end thereof with perforated lugs B slidably engaging guide rods C having their inner ends provided with downwardly extending lugs C resting on the top of the window sill D of a window D, as plainly indicated in Figs. 1 and 2. The outer ends of the guide rods C are provided with eyes C2 engaged by the middle portion of a U- haped supporting rod E, having its ends provided with downwardly extending lugs E removably engaging sockets F fastened to the outside 0f the sides D2 of the window frame D, as plainly illustrated in Fig. 1. Thus by the arrangement described the guide rods C extend wholly outside of the sashes ofthe window, and are supported at their inner ends on the window sill D and at their outer ends by the rod E carried by the sockets F attached to the outside of the window frame, so that the rods C and E are wholly arranged outside of the window.

By the construction described, the platform A may be readily moved outward on the rod C, to extend outside of the window, for supporting milk bottles, flower pots, boxes containing flowers and the like, it being understood that while the platform A is in this outermost position, the window sashes canbe readily raised and lowered without the slightest interference, by the attachment described.

It will also be noticed that when the window sashes are open the platform A can be readily drawn inward, so as to permit an operator standing in the room to conveniently remove the articles from the same, or load the same with articles, and thus push the platform back to an outermost position.

In order to strengthen the support for the guide rods C the eyes C2 thereof are provided with outer extensions Ca connected with each other by a connecting bar C4 engaged by the ends of ropes or chains G extending upwardly and inwardly, and hooked at their upper ends onto hooks II attached to the outside of the sides D2 of the window frame.

The inner end of the platform A is provided with a roller handle I extending in a cut-out portion A and adapted to be taken hold of by the operator to permit of conveniently pulling the platform A inward into loading position within the room, as indicated in Fig. 1, or to push the platform outward into supporting position outside of the window, as illustrated in Fig. 2. The underside of the platform Ais preferably provided with reinforcing slats or ribs A2 to prevent Warping of the platform and to greatly strengthen the same.

The entire device can be readily removed from the window whenever it is desired to do so, by simply unhooking the ropes, rods or chains G and disengaging the rod E from the sockets F.

The Window attachment shown and described is very simple in construction and composed of comparatively few parts, which can be cheaply manufactured and conveniently attached to windows as now constructed.

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comprising guide ways having lugs on their inner ends resting loosely on the windo w sill and extend-v ing outward therefrom, means attached to the ends of the guideways and detachably connected to the window frame for supporting the said guideways, and a platform slidably mounted on the said guideways.

2. A window attachment7 comprising guide rods having their inner ends formed with lugs for engaging the window sill, the outer ends of the guide rods being connected 'with each other by lan integral connecting rod, a supporting rod engaging the outer ends of the said guide rods and attached to the window frame, and braces connected with the cross bar and attached to the window frame.

3. A window attachment, comprising guide rods having their inner ends formed with lugs for engaging the Window sill, the outer ends of the guide rods being connected with each other by an integral connecting rod, a supporting rod engaging the outer ends of the said guide rods, and sockets attached to the outside of the sides of the window frame and adapted to removably receive the ends of the said supporting rod.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this speciiication in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

RUPERT BAXTER SMART.

Witnesses:

FREDERICK W. TETENs, VICTOR H. WAULUND, 

